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Dentons is pleased to announce that the Firm has been ranked in 99 categories in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500 UK, and a total of 226 Dentons lawyers have been recognised across their respective practice areas.

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With 174 locations in 78 countries, Dentons is home to top-tier talent that is found at the intersection of geography, industry knowledge and substantive legal experience. Working with Dentons, you will have the opportunity to learn from the best lawyers in the industry at the largest law firm in the world.

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, has launched a new Market Insights publication entitled “Digital Transformation and the Digital Consumer”, which examines the legal implications of the online economy.

Dentons is pleased to celebrate the first anniversary of the Firm's combination with Maclay Murray & Spens, creating a UK footprint of six offices: three in England (London, Milton Keynes and Watford) and three in Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen).

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Whether your transactions are not performing as expected, you are looking to open novel business solutions in new geographies, or you are simply negotiating master agreements, lawyers from Dentons understand your requirements. Together with you, we develop forward-thinking solutions.

Pursue your deals with confidence. When you work with us, you gain strategic legal insight and innovative solutions for a wide range of issues. Always keeping your objectives foremost, our lawyers deftly navigate complex transactions and regulations through our comprehensive understanding of the products and the players, across all asset classes. Safeguard against volatility through our risk management practices. From highly tailored, onetime structures, to high-volume swaps, negotiate the best deal possible by leveraging keen perspective gained from our experience representing all players at the table.

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AmRest Group: Structuring and preparing a documentation for a pioneering deal which provided a zł3billion financing to a Polish insurance company through a use of repo transactions concluded with a Polish bank that hedged its position through mirror repo transactions concluded with the National Bank of Poland.

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie (Citibank): Negotiating a number of International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreements and global master repurchase agreements (GMRAs) with over 20 European and US banks. Citibank subsidiary commissioned us with the whole negotiation process of the legal framework for concluding derivative and financial transactions on the inter-bank market with foreign, as well as domestic, banks. This documentation serves as the basis for operations of the treasury department of the bank.

Credit Agricole: Advising in relation to the regulation of derivative products under the laws of Azerbaijan.

Goldman Sachs International: Advising and issuing of a legal opinion for Goldman Sachs International in respect of derivatives transactions within the framework on the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement.

Lehman Brothers: Advising on unravelling International Swaps and Derivatives Association and global master repurchasing agreement frameworks with American and British group companies of Lehman Brothers.

Largest Polish bank: Preparing legal documentation and legal framework for the Bank’s commodity derivative transactions (client documentation and solutions for the international intra-bank market). This was a ground-breaking process on the Polish market as commodity derivatives where until recently not actively traded in Poland. We were involved in the whole process – from preparing the structure (including intra-bank market and bank-client relationship), through providing analysis of legal environment, to the advice on internal bank regulations (including front office, middle-office and back office).

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Claims in conspiracy are notoriously difficult to plead. Whilst that has not deterred claimant law firms in their attempts to bring such claims against major financial institutions, the courts continue to demonstrate that they will take a strict approach to serious claims alleging fraud and dishonesty.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published its 2018 US Resolution Stay Protocol, which differs in a key way from protocols published in recent prior years. The 2018 US Protocol is designed to allow market participants to comply with certain regulations issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a letter granting no-action relief to non-US persons who enter into swaps with certain international financial institutions (such as the International Monetary Fund). Dentons explains how the letter fits with previous CFTC guidance, who is impacted and what steps those parties may need to take.

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